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Razor scooters are popular with riders of all ages! There are plenty of cool tricks you can learn no matter your skill level. Fun tricks for beginners include learning how to do a bunny hope, a tire tap, and a barspin. Learning these will boost your confidence and help you learn the basic maneuvers to start doing more advanced tricks. Once you feel ready, there are plenty of more complex tricks that you can learn too! These include a half cab, a heelwhip, and a fakie.

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Method1

Beginner Razor Scooter Tricks

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Do a bunny hop to learn a fun and easy trick. Take your scooter to where the ground is wide and flat. Ride your scooter at a comfortable speed and when you feel ready, bend your knees and jump into the air. As you jump, pull the handlebars upward to draw the scooter deck up with you. Keep bending your knees as you land back on the ground and push the handlebars downward slightly.[1]

You don’t need any ramps or hills to do a bunny hop.

Mastering the bunny hop will help you prepare to learn more complex tricks.

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Do a manual to ride just on the back wheel of your scooter. A manual is a great way to practice your balance and to learn a transition to use between different tricks. Put 1 foot on the back of your scooter deck and then kick off with your other foot. Gently lift the handlebars up so that the front wheel is airborne while keeping your other foot off the scooter deck and just above the ground. Use your hands to steer the scooter and swing your foot that’s not on the deck to help keep yourself balanced.[2]

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Try a tire tap to bounce on the back of your scooter. Ride your scooter forward and then place 1 foot down on the brake. Position your other foot so that it rests on the deck just in front of the brake. Pull the handlebars up to lift the front wheel and then bounce on the brake so that your scooter jumps slightly with only the back wheel touching the ground.[3]

The tire tap also make a good transition between more complicated tricks.

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Perform a barspin to learn the basic maneuver for handlebar tricks. Take your right hand off the handlebars and use your left hand to spin the handlebars as far as you comfortably can. When you can’t spin the handlebars any further, bring your right hand under your left arm and grab the handlebars with your left hand. Remove your right hand and then complete the rotation with your left hand. Once you have rotated the handlebars by 360°, return your right hand to the handlebars.[4]

You can start with either your left or right hand, as long as you complete the barspin with your opposite hand. The basic process is the same.

Practice barspins while you are stationary first by standing with 1 foot on the brake and lifting the front of the scooter off the ground.

If you want to perform a barspin while you’re riding, do a bunny hop as high as you can and complete the barspin while you’re in the air.

Method2

Complex Razor Scooter Tricks

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Try a half cab for a more advanced version of a bunny hop. A half cab is an easy and impressive trick to learn! Begin by bending your knees and pulling the handlebars up as you jump into a bunny hop. While you are jumping, turn your body by 180° to completely change your direction. Land on the ground in the same way as a bunny hop, with your knees bent and the handlebars pushed towards the ground.[5]

Try to jump as high as you can so that you have enough time to change direction.

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Perform a heel whip to do a bunny hop with a 360° rotation. Begin by doing a bunny hop and jumping as high as you can in the air. While you are airborne, use your heel to kick the scooter deck firmly so that it spins by 360° in an anticlockwise direction. As the scooter deck rotates, hold the handlebars firmly with both hands to keep your body in the same position. When your scooter deck has rotated a full 360°, place both feet back on and land with your knees bent.[6]

It’s best to practice a heelwhip on flat ground first before you move onto trying it on ramps.

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Do a fakie to combine a couple of different scooter deck tricks. Slowly ride your scooter forward and gently pull the handlebars up so that the deck is lifted off the ground. Lightly hop from the deck as you lift it and use the foot that is at the front of the deck to push it so that it rotates by 180°. When the scooter deck is directly in front of you, place the foot that you used to rotate the deck back down, as close to the handle as you can.[7]

If you want to return to your original position, simply follow the same process.

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Try riding with no hands to practice your balance. Although it may seem scary, all you need to ride without hands is a bit of confidence! Begin by riding your scooter along flat ground at a comfortable speed. Lift the handlebars up very slightly and rotate them by 180° with 1 hand. When your handlebars are the wrong way around, simply remove the 1 hand that remains on the bars and sink your weight into your back foot on the scooter deck. Align your back shoulder with your back foot and balance for as long as you can![8]

It’s important to put as much weight on your back foot as possible because this is where your center of balance is.

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 178 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. Together, they cited 9 references. This article has also been viewed 274,169 times.